Laravel Jetstream (Livewire) not returning user through eloquent relationship

Question

I'm trying to return the user name who submitted an article, but unable to access this via an eloquent relationship.

Models/Thing

public function users()
{
    return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}

with user_id stored in the things table

However this dump isn't returning user data: dd($this->thing->users->name);

Error:

Attempt to read property "name" on null

user_1003204 · Answer

try this

return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'user_id', 'id');

in my view you are using users with belongTo. it will work if you will use.

public function user(){
    return $this->belongsTo( User::class );

}

and then

dd( $this->thing->user->name );